When it's done, the recreation of Oblivion's Imperial City in Minecraft will consume more than a million blocks and countless hours of construction - and be a temptation that griefers will find nearly impossible to resist.

I fired up Minecraft the other day, and sat there mining for maybe three or four hours.

Now, this may not seem as such a magnificent thing, but it is. I didn't do anything else. I mined. Found a cave, lit it up, buildt a shelter from it, and then proceeded to dig, deeper and deeper. A game that can keep me entertained while farming in such a manner is truly a great piece of design. I was happy when I was just carving out cobblestone. Imagine how I felt when I found gold, iron or diamonds?

I am, however, not one of those creatively gifted players who build immense replicas of grandeur, but I am thoroughly impressed with what the game allows one to do. The only limit with the game seems to be one's imagination, and that is something no other game I know of is capable of.

Minecraft is marvellous, and Notch deserve every little ounce of credit for his game.

I for one sincerely appreciate the idea of making the city in a normal PvE server as opposed to a sterile build only type. The reason is that outside the city, it will be the world as it is. It turns the city into more than just a gargantuan show-piece that people will just traipse around and leave. No this will be a part of it's own little world, where outside the walls will lurk those dastardly skeletons and creepers. It will feel complete. In summary:

insanelich:Eeh, we do similar projects on the official Escapist MC server too...

... though we certainly don't mine the materials. Geez, guys.

I hadn't realized Escapia wasn't the official server. Does that mean your server was started by a staff member?

Also, why play survival without the survival? I HATE servers where the Ops give out crap to people, It's incredibly fun to go out in to the wilderness with friends and create a settlement and build up from nothing. It's an experience like no other!

I really do wanna give minecraft a go, and now that I have my own laptop I probably will. And the phrase "digital Lego" has made me sure I'm going to try it very soon.

Also, to John Funk (who probably won't read this but what the hey), outside my university library, there is a memorial thingy, loads of large upstanding slabs of stone,

Here is a picture if anyone is interestedPHA+PGltZyBzcmM9Imh0dHA6Ly9mYXJtMS5zdGF0aWMuZmxpY2tyLmNvbS8zMC81MDgxNzkwOV8xN2I2NjU3ZTA2LmpwZyIgYWx0PSJpbWFnZSIvPjwvcD4=

I never read the words on them before but today as I was passing by I noticed the name John Funk on one of them, so I stopped and read it, I don't remember the exact works but it said something like John Funk from long Island commemorates his Irish ancestor George Funk or something, I dunno if its just a coincidence or maybe its the same John Funk.

heh, I just reinstalled oblivion. i wonder if they're including the sewers. either way that's really sweet. it's nice to see a "toy" for all ages that is bringing people together to built these large scale projects.

Kudos on doing the work properly. I love survival mode, I can't play minecraft any other way. Of course I tend to build forts, mines, and shelters that can only be described as "Brutalist" Le Corbusier would be proud.

Nice little server u got there, though the "scale" of the Imperial City isnt something i havnt seen on our own server, the Dutch "TweakCraft" server.its also Survival Multiplayer with everything needing to be mined.

On our server we do loads of those 1:1 projects, ranging from the Towerbridge and Hogwarts to the Forbidden city in Bejing, with the Bejing project being 1500x2000 big.

this is a (work in progress) picture of Orthanc Dur from Lord of the Rings:

Feel free to look around though to build you need a friend on the server...

'"What makes this project unique to others, is that we're building it in Survival Multiplayer," virtual architect Lionheart_1 told The Escapist. To Minecraft laypeople, this means the builders have to do everything by hand, rather than use level editors or specially designed programs as shortcuts.'

After reading this, I lost all respect for all the other people who made other remakes in minecraft.